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Video: Video on Demand of NZ Prime Minister Helen
Clark's post Cabinet press conference for Parliamentary
press gallery journalists held this afternoon. The cabinet
readout was followed by Q&A concentrated around the imminent
signing of a Free Trade Agreement with China on April 7 in
Beijing. Also covered was the Zimbabwe election and the
explosion of a bomb in Afghanistan near NZ's troop
deployment.

Scoop Audio: Video on Demand of
NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark's post Cabinet press
conference for Parliamentary press gallery journalists held
this afternoon. The cabinet readout was followed by Q&A
concentrated around the imminent signing of a Free Trade
Agreement with China on April 7 in Beijing. Also covered was
the Zimbabwe election and the explosion of a bomb in
Afghanistan near NZ's troop deployment.

Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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